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CRACKING THE EINSTEIN CODE
CRACKING THE EINSTEIN CODE
Subtitle:
Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics
Book Category:
Fiction > General
Author:
Melia, Fulvio
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN 10:
226519511
ISBN 13:
9780226519517
Price:
USD 25.00
Publication Year:
2009

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Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity describes the effect of gravitation on the shape of space and the flow of time. But for more than four decades after its publication, the theory remained largely a curiosity for scientists; however accurate it seemed, Einstein's mathematical code--represented by six interlocking equations--was one of the most difficult to crack in all of science. That is, until a twenty-nine-year-old Cambridge graduate solved the great riddle in 1963. Roy Kerr's solution emerged coincidentally with the discovery of black holes that same year and provided fertile testing ground--at long last--for general relativity. UK Price: 17.50 GBP

 
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